A Self-Study Course on Political Islam, Level 2

By Bill Warner

FACT-BASED

You can find opinions about Islamic doctrine in the main stream media, but no facts. That is because they do not study the only foundation of knowledge about the true nature of Islam- Mohammed and Allah. This self-study course is based on three of the Islamic source texts: the Koran, the Sira (biography of Mohammed) and the Hadi

• Language: English
• Publisher: CSPI, LLC
• Release date: Apr 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781936659289

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A SELF-STUDY COURSE ON

POLITICAL ISLAM

LEVEL 2

A THREE LEVEL COURSE

BILL WARNER, PHD

A SELF-STUDY COURSE ON

POLITICAL ISLAM

LEVEL 2

A THREE LEVEL COURSE

BILL WARNER, PHD

COPYRIGHT © 2011 CSPI, LLC

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ISBN13 978-1-936659-10-4

V 09.20.2016

PUBLISHED BY CSPI, LLC

WWW.CSPIPUBLISHING.COM

This book is dedicated to the

millions of victims of jihad over the past 1400 years.

May you read this and become a voice for the voiceless.

PREFACE

THE CSPI TEACHING METHOD

The Center for the Study of Political Islam, CSPI teaching method is the easiest and quickest way to learn about Islam.

Authoritative

There are only two ultimate authorities about Islam—Allah and Mohammed. All of the curriculum in the CSPI method is from the Koran and the Sunna (the words and deeds of Mohammed). The knowledge you get in CSPI is powerful, authoritative and irrefutable. You learn the facts about the ideology of Islam from its ultimate sources.

Story-telling

Facts are hard to remember, stories are easy to remember. The most important story in Islam is the life of Mohammed. Once you know the story of Mohammed, all of Islam is easy to understand.

Systemic Knowledge

The easiest way to study Islam is to first see the whole picture. The perfect example of this is the Koran. The Koran alone cannot be understood, but when the life of Mohammed is added, the Koran is straight forward.

There is no way to understand Islam one idea at the time, because there is no context. Context, like story-telling, makes the facts and ideas simple to understand. The best analogy is that when the jig saw puzzle is assembled, the image on the puzzle is easy to see. But looking at the various pieces, it is difficult to see the picture.

Levels of Learning

The ideas of Islam are very foreign to our civilization. It takes repetition to grasp the new ideas. The CSPI method uses four levels of training to teach the doctrine in depth. The first level is designed for a beginner. Each level repeats the basics for in depth learning.

When you finish the first level you will have seen the entire scope of Islam, The in depth knowledge will come from the next levels.

Political Islam, Not Religious Islam

Islam has a political doctrine and a religious doctrine. Its political doctrine is of concern for everyone, while religious Islam is of concern only for Muslims.

Books Designed for Learning

Each CSPI book fits into a teaching system. Most of the paragraphs have an index number which means that you can confirm for yourself how factual the books are by verifying from the original source texts.

LEVEL 1

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRILOGY AND SHARIA

The Life of Mohammed, The Hadith, Lectures on the Foundations of Islam, The Two Hour Koran, Sharia Law for Non-Muslims, Self Study on Political Islam, Level 1

LEVEL 2

APPLIED DOCTRINE, SPECIAL TOPICS

The Doctrine of Women, The Doctrine of Christians and Jews, The Doctrine of Slavery, Self-Study on Political Islam, Level 2, Psychology of the Muslim, Factual Persuasion

LEVEL 3

INTERMEDIATE TRILOGY AND SHARIA

Mohammed and the Unbelievers, Political Traditions of Mohammed, Simple Koran, Self-Study of Political Islam, Level 3, Sources of the Koran, selected topics from Reliance of the Traveller

LEVEL 4

ORIGINAL SOURCE TEXTS

The Life of Muhammed, Guillaume; any Koran, Sahih Bukhari, selected topics, Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited, Scott.

With the completion of Level 4 you are prepared to read both popular and academic texts.

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INTRODUCTION

LESSON 1

THIS BOOK

This book is the second in a series of lessons devoted to the study of political Islam. Each book has a discussion of the same lessons on different aspects of Islam. You get to study the same subject at three different levels. However, you could pick up any of the three levels and understand it.

A full introduction is given in Level 1. However, since each of the three levels can stand on its own, the following is a brief summary of the introduction in Level 1.

The scientific method is a new approach to the study of Islam. Analysis shows that Islam is both a religion and a political system, and that the political system is the greatest part of Islamic doctrine.

KAFIR

The Koran says that the Kafir may be deceived, plotted against, hated, enslaved, mocked, tortured and worse. The word is usually translated as unbeliever but this translation is wrong. The word unbeliever is logically and emotionally neutral, whereas, Kafir is the most abusive, prejudiced and hateful word in any language.

There are many religious names for Kafirs: polytheists, idolaters, People of the Book (Christians and Jews), Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, and pagans. Kafir covers them all, because no matter what the religious name is, they can all be treated the same. What Mohammed said and did to polytheists can be done to any other category of Kafir.

Islam devotes a great amount of energy to the Kafir. The majority (64%) of the Koran is devoted to the Kafir, and nearly all of the Sira (81%) deals with Mohammed’s struggle with them. The Hadith (Traditions) devotes 37% of the text to Kafirs¹. Overall, the Trilogy devotes 51% of its content to the Kafir.

POLITICAL ISLAM

What is the difference between religious Islam and political Islam? Do you remember when some Danish artists drew some cartoons of Mohammed? There were weeks of rioting, threats, lawsuits, killings, assassinations and destruction by Muslims. If Muslims want to respect Mohammed by never criticizing, joking about him and taking every word he said as a sacred example—that is religious. But when they threaten, pressure and hurt Kafirs for not respecting Mohammed, that is political. When Muslims say that Mohammed is the prophet of the only god, that is religious, but when they insist that Kafirs never disrespect Mohammed, that is political. When the newspapers and TV agreed not to publish the cartoons, that was a political response, not a religious response.

THE THREE VIEWS OF ISLAM

Here is an example of the three points of view.

In Medina, Mohammed sat all day long beside his 12-year-old wife while they watched as the heads of 800 Jews were removed by sword.² Their heads were cut off because they had said that Mohammed was not the prophet of Allah. Muslims view these deaths as necessary because denying Mohammed’s prophet-hood was, and remains, an offense against Islam. They were beheaded because it is sanctioned by Allah.

Kafirs look at this event as proof of the jihadic violence of Islam and as an evil act.

Apologists say that this was an historic event; that all cultures have violence in their past, and no judgment should be passed. They have never actually read any of Islam’s foundational texts, but speak authoritatively about Islam.

According to the different points of view, killing the 800 Jews was:

•  A tragedy

•  A perfect sacred act

•  Another historical event. We have done worse.

There is no right view of Islam, since the views cannot be reconciled.

This book is written from the Kafir point of view. Everything in this book views Islam from the perspective of how Islam affects Kafirs. This also means that the religion is of little importance. A Muslim cares about the religion of Islam, but all Kafirs are affected by Islam’s political views. We must talk about Islam in the political realm, because it is a powerful political system.

This is a fact-based study. You can read the actual doctrine for yourself and draw your own conclusions.

REFERENCE NUMBERS

The information in this book can be traced back to the source by use of the reference numbers:

Ishaq234 is a reference to Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah, translated by A. Guillaume as The Life of Muhammad. This is a reference to margin note 234. All of these references are condensed for ease of understanding.

Bukhari2,3,45 is a reference to Sahih Bukhari, Bukhari’s Hadith. The three example numbers are volume 2, book 3, and number 45, a standard reference system.

Muslim2,345 is a reference to Sahih Muslim, Muslim’s Hadith. The example would be book 2, number 345.

Koran12:45 is Koran chapter (sura) 12, verse 45.

GLOSSARY

There is a glossary of Islamic words in the very back.

1 http://cspipublishing.com/statistical/TrilogyStats/AmtTxtDevotedKafir.html

2 The Life of Muhammad, A. Guillaume, Oxford University Press, 1982, pg. 464.

MOHAMMED

LESSON 2

SUMMARY

•  Islam is based entirely upon Mohammed. The easiest and surest way to know Islam is to study Mohammed’s life and words.

•  Mohammed was born in Mecca 1400 years ago. He was an orphan who became a business man. At about 40 years of age he started to have visions and hear voices. The voice told him that he was a prophet of Allah. He began to tell others of his message from Allah. After 13 years the Meccans ran him out of town and he moved to Medina.

•  In Medina he became a politician and war leader. He developed jihad, sacred violence for Allah. Over the next 10 years Mohammed crushed his enemies and became the first ruler of all Arabia.

•  We know the smallest details of the